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<h2 class="p1"><strong>New York Times</strong></h2><p class="p2"><em>Paul Krugman, filled with laughing gas, as he reads of President Barack Obama slipping on yet another banana peel: </em></p>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:00:00 -0500Assorted Jackasses61014Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/59581/current-wisdom
<div class="teaser"> The NationIn a grisly interview with Mr. Jon Weiner, Miss Sandra Tsing Loh (this is not a typo) discourses on the wonder and sadness of her plumbing:Jon Weiner: This is the only menopause book I’ve ever read. Are there others?Sandra Tsing Loh: The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful and the most medical of all genres. You’re sleepless, you’re anxious, you’re fat, you’re depressed—and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale and drink lots of water. It didn’t help. But there is one excellent book.</div>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses59581Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/57737/current-wisdom
<div class="teaser"> SlateA troubled young thing communicates with the famed Internet advice columnist “Dear Prudence,” anterior to entering the blissful world of divorce court for years to come. I think this inquiry came from a recent graduate of Harvard State University:My boyfriend “Ted” and I have been together for nine months, and we’ve been living together for the last six (yes, I realized that we moved in together very fast). We support each other, share responsibilities well, and have an active and engaging sex life. I see myself spending the rest of my life with Ted.</div>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses57737Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/55081/current-wisdom
<h3><strong>The Atlantic</strong></h3> <p><em>An earnest young disciple of the Hon. Eliot Spitzer makes an inquiry about his true loves only to be made the butt of ridicule: </em></p>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:22:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses55081Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/55387/current-wisdom
<h3><strong>The Daily Telegraph </strong></h3> <p><em>In a leading British daily, yet another wholesome use for that staple of a young Westerner’s life, the prophylactic, now more commonly called the condom or possibly “a good chew”:</em></p>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:10:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses55387Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/55587/current-wisdom
<h3><strong>New York Magazine</strong></h3> <p><em>An innocent headline by the editors of this family publication drives Miss Maureen O’Connor, writer in residence at</em> New York Magazine<em>, into frenzies of libidinous outrage while alone and at the keyboard of her laptop just below her signed picture of Erica: </em></p> <p><strong>“The American Spectator Is Flaccid”<br /></strong><em>by Maureen O’Connor</em></p>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses55587Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/55751/current-wisdom
<h3>MTV.com</h3> <p><em>The sad breakup of a truly promising rock ensemble occasioned because some idiot forgot to flush the toilet is remembered in the imperishable prose of Mr. James Montgomery, rock critic and skateboard aficionado:</em></p> <p>My Chemical Romance broke up Friday night, ending a career that spanned a dozen years and produced some of the most visceral, dramatic rock and roll in recent memory.</p>Sat, 11 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses55751Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/33708/current-wisdom
<h4>Huffington Post</h4> <p><em>The solitary vice as practiced by an anonymous source in bed but fully clothed and dwelling on The Immensities:</em></p> <p>I settle back in bed, fully clothed, under the sheets, and get ready for what I love most in the world: writing. When I’m writing, I have the impression of being nothing and everything, a man and a woman, a boy and a girl, young and old, gay and straight, totally free. A form of freedom. When I write, I feel like an “address unknown,” like I have no fixed identity anymore. It’s a feeling of happiness.</p>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses33708Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/33898/current-wisdom
<h3>NewYorker.com</h3> <p><em>Young David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, while in the solitude of the quiet car on an Acela Express returning to New York from the Coronation rite, tries his hand at fashion notes or is it anatomical notes:</em></p>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400Assorted Jackasses33898Current Wisdomhttp://spectator.org/articles/34069/current-wisdom
<h4>Time</h4> <p><em>Time magazine gives its invaluable Person of the Year award to the man who will lead America for the next four years from the White House’s official John Deere D140 48-inch 22 HP Hydrostatic Front-Engine Riding Mower, complete with utility cart:</em></p>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:13:00 -0500Assorted Jackasses34069